Dine

dine
    v 1: have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in
         this restaurant"
    2: give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my
       friends"
    

Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
   an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
   fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and
   cf. {Dinner}, {D?jeuner}.]
   To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
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         Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
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   {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner; -- a
      phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from
      the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner
      hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of
      Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
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Dine \Dine\, v. t.
   1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to
      feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
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            A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie
            Armstrong and his merry men.          --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine."
      --Chaucer.
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Dine
(Gen. 43:16). It was the custom in Egypt to dine at noon. But it
is probable that the Egyptians took their principal meal in the
evening, as was the general custom in the East (Luke 14:12).
    

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "dine":
      banquet, board, bread, break bread, break bread with, breakfast,
      cook out, dine out, dinner, eat, eat out, feast, feed, fodder,
      forage, grass, gratify, graze, lunch, meat, mess, mess with,
      nibble, nosh, pasture, picnic, provision, regale, satisfy, sup,
      sustain, wine and dine